Schedule management, claims processing, medical insurance for staff, depreciation, collections and many other areas could benefit dramatically.
The basis of competition will shift to other aspects of the business, such as customer relationships, claims processing, expense management and distribution.
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The industry has promised to do several things, including better manage chronic diseases, streamline claims processing, aggregate performance data and implement other efficiency measures.
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Insurance companies will realize the medical equivalent of a car tune-up is best paid for without introducing the Gordian Knot of insurance claims processing.
Here in Alabama in particular, about 200 of the roughly 450 Guardsmen who've been activated have received specialized training to assist BP with claims processing.
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In addition to submitting the required SPAs, states are also in the process of reprogramming their claims processing systems to pay at the appropriate, higher rates.
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Next up is a scan on coordination of benefits through normal claims processing to look for cases when another state program or private insurance paid all or part of a claim.
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And with the end of fee-for-service payments, insurance companies will no longer be needed to handle complicated billing and claims processing, nor will they need to be paid a fee for doing so.
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As the leading pharmacy benefit manager, CVS Caremark extends mail order pharmacy services, claims processing, and prescription plan design and administration on behalf of plan sponsors, which include corporations, insurance providers and the government.
Penalizing errors at both the employee and management levels will foster the provision of more effective training, motivate claims processors to pay more attention in the classroom, and inject into the claims processing system a greater emphasis on quality.
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The company is also slowly moving into the business process outsourcing, or BPO space, with a recent deal with ING bank in the U.S. Cognizant will be working with insurance claims processing for ING and hiring 1, 000 ING staffers and make them members of the Cognizant family.
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Some of the topics raised by the members' expenses committee have been raised with him before - including the cost of processing claims, a comparison of costs with the previous expenses system and the amount of time MPs were spending processing claims.
An aboriginal claim is filed and the federal claims-processing machinery grinds into motion.
Mr Cresswell admitted that making and processing claims for such matters - putting a value on inconvenience - would be "quite a challenge".
Through the Electronic Healthcare Records (HER) and Practice Management (PM) software and services Costco members can simplify and save time in filling prescriptions and processing claims at a low price.
The chief executive Antonio Horta-Osorio told me that Lloyds is employing 6000 people full time on processing claims for PPI compensation, of which 1000 spend all their time dealing with false claims.
This ignores the fact that the vast bulk of litigation in this country is relatively low-risk stuff like processing automobile claims.
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What is perhaps horrifying in these huge numbers is how much time and money Lloyds is deploying on processing bogus claims.
All health plans are under pressure to improve quality through better information technology to communicate with customers and medical care providers while more efficiently and rapidly processing medical claims for health plan enrollees.
Inside a low-rise office building in Monterrey, Mexico, hundreds of workers sit in front of computer screens, processing insurance-claims data all day.
First, it tried to accelerate the processing of asylum claims so people are not condemned to idleness for months or even years.
"New York policy holders have paid their premiums and have every right to expect a timely processing of their claims so that they can rebuild their homes and businesses, " department Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky said.
If they make it past toughened border controls, they will be packed off to overseas processing centres while their claims are heard.
Indeed, we express our candid opinion that the DRSA was an employment contract between Nextel and LMB designed to achieve a en masse processing and resolution of claims that LMB was obligated to pursue individually on behalf of each of its clients.
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Think of the efficiencies in hospital supply chains, the delivery of prescription drugs, the processing of billing and insurance claims, reductions in fraud, and the application of best practices for cost controls.
Upon doing so she realized that her public profile, which had been created with her stage name, was updated to include her legal date of birth, information the actress claims was gleaned from her credit card information when processing the payment.
But this latest gridlock had the AMA on high alert, because t he federal government had already said it would not hold claims and Medicare carriers were expected today to begin processing payments for physicians services after Dec. 31 under the typical 14-day cycle required by law.
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German insurance provider ERGO has built an in-house app for iPhone that thousands of agents use to process insurance claims, which has significantly reduced paper work and improved processing time and customer satisfaction.
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Groningen is a pleasant place, with an old university, but its claims to fame do not extend to much beyond the industrial processing of sugar-beet and a glorious 15th-century tower.
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